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Phonathonjwraps up another successful campaignBy Yvonne MaherMerciad Staff Reporter

The sounds of phone conversations filledthe third floor of Egan Hall for the past ninedays as students, faculty and alumni volun-teers phoned every corner of the nation in thehope-off acquiring pledges* for the 1991Phonathon.This is the 11thyear that people have cometogether at one central location to get dona-tions for scholarship funds from former stuldents of the college.-,This is an opportunity for alumni to inter-act with present students,'' said Gary Bukow-ski, co-organizer of the event, "It is a greatlearning experience for students, and it createsa nice interplay between both groups."Asof Tuesday, Feb. 12, the Phonathon hadgenerated $44,000 which is about 70 percentof the targeted goal $65,000. This money hasbeen pledged to volunteers from different groups,including: the Irish team, the Hospitality

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Management department, crew, the baseballteamJ Students,Against Driving Drunk, theCouncil for Exceptional Children, Phi EtaS igma and others.4'Sister Damien is the number one per-son," according toPatLiebel, alumni director.4*She really gets involved and puts in hours onSundays and evenings, ova- and above herwork schedule. She really gives her all."According toBukowski, the m oney gener-ated from the Phonathon goes toward scholar-ship funds. Last year the alumni held a dinnerso that scholarship donors could meet therecipients of their scholarships. Bukowski saidthat thePhonathon would not have been pos-sible without the contribution of time by thevolunteers. ^The team that gets the most amount ofpledged money receives a percentage of thetotal, which amounted o $250 last year. Head-ing the poll thus far is the Irish team."All I can say is that the volunteers havereally lived u p to the motto of 'Carpe Diem'and have given 199 percent,* ] akl Bukowski

VOUS4 NO. 13 GLENWOOD HILLS. ERIE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14t 1991College Senate reviews college issuesCHECKI T - G O T

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hursday , Feb.14:30 p .m. Zurn recital hall,AC presents The Datingame.*a tu rday , Feb.16

p .m. Campus Cente r ,en's basketball hosts Buf-alo, featuring a noise andanner competition. Re-freshments follow in thenion.

-The Mercy hurst College Senate met Thurs-day, Feb. 7, in the Carolyn Herrmann StudentUnion M eeting Room. Highlights of themeet-ing were the following:- Academic Policies Committee Chair, Dr.Kenneth Schiff, reported on m atters currentlyunder examination, including refinement ofthe Honors Program and the impact of theMcAuley Junior College on the academicperformance at the main campus.I The committee was concerned with mak-ing the honor's program more attractive tostudents. This may be done by conductingactivities outside of class for hon ors students,according to Schiff. He added that the currentpractice of honorizing a class often involvesthe student being asked o write an extra paperor report This, he said, often appears punitiveto students and so he suggests more creative

campus and Corry, and a proposal that will becoming to the Senate recommending facultystatus for librarians. Pinto said faculty statusfor librarians would facilitate the recruitmentof librarians, the retention of librarians, andprofessional development He|said|that themove would entail a substantial revision of thefaculty handbook, especially in * the area re-garding academic freedom and privileges.Librarians are the only adm inistrators that arerequired to report to the academic dean, ac-cording o Pinto.- M iddle States Steering Committee Chairs,Tom Sillingsley and Michael McQuillen, spokein favor ofia proposal recommending thatSenate standing com mittees serve as workinggroups for the Middle States self-study. AfterMBA presentation

a lengthy discussion over the increased work-load, the senate voted to accept the proposal.- Dr. William P. G arvey, who was scheduledto give the President*sState oi ihe Collegemessage o he Senate at this meeting, limitedhis remarks, because of the lateness of thehour, to a brief discussion of the healthy finan-cial situation at the college. He said he wouldbe glad to return for a more comprehensivediscussion at a future meeting. The senate is a group of students, facultyand administrators, that deals with the variousissues that impact on the college and advise thepresident on its findings. The next senate meetingis scheduled for March 7, and anyone mayattend.

Guest speaker discusses discrimination**unday , Feb.17:30 p.m. Zu rn recital hall ,rformance by D'Angelohamber orchestra.Jp.m. Ice-skating shuttlesleave Baldwin.onday , Feb.18ummings gallery exhibitf new watercolors. 1ednesday, Feb.20

p.m. Student un ion, foodor finals.

ways of honorizing classes.On the subject of the McAuley? JuniorCollege, which was tabled for the next meet-ing, Schiff said the committee is mainly con-cerned with the academic competency of jun-ior college graduates enrolling as regularMcrcyhurst students. He said that it must beensured that the existence of the junior collegeshould not lower the academic standard of themain college. 3 |- Campus Life Commiuee Chair, Cay Maloncy,reported on concerns being investigated bythat committee, including inconsistencies in\ fines and penalties imposed by RA's. E. Wil-liam Kennedy, director of student services,addressed the issue, admitting that there areinconsistencies. He said this is because ofdiffering personalities of RAs. He said that thisproblem may be relieved by educating RAsmore. ^- Library Committee representative, DavidPinto, reported that the commiuee is now work-

By Karen McGuireMerciad News Editor

ing on plans for the Harry Burleigh Mem orialCenter, library facilities at both North East

Hostility and tension bounced off the wallsof Preston 312 last Tuesday when Mr. MartinShannon told of his work ethics. Shannonconfessed to an astonished audience about hiseveryday discriminatory work procedures.Shannon owns a small private companythat doesn't do business w ith thegovernmentBecause of this, Shannon can discriminateagainst whomever he wishes, and has littlechance of getting caught. He displayed hisbigoted views openly without discretion. Hetold tales of times he discriminated againstminorities and w omen. |Shannon is not a real person. He is actuallyan actor from the comedy troupe "In AllSeriousness'' who was asked o participate inthe Mcrcyhurst Business Association(MBA)presentation entitled,"Discrimination In TheWorkforce.*' Hie imposter set the stage for avery real and very serious fproblem in thebusiness world.Guest speaker Sid Booker, personnel di-

SID BOOKERrector at American SterilizerCompany(AMSCO), spoke to a group ofapproximately 20 people about the importanceof laws and orders requiring equal employ-ment and affirmative action. He was able ousehisexperience at AMSCO orelate the laws to(cases. The company does approxi-mately $94 million of work for the govern-I is strictly regulated. |See 'Discrimination' page 2

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Editor's Note: This column is de&^ ^ rmgmm whappening in the international and national areaseitd from a variety of sources.By Karen McGuireMerciad N ews EditorINTERNATIONAL:Lithuania - Lithuanians voted for tndependto one in a referrendum. MThis will give strcnation, qualities we will need in the future,"said. iTokyo, Japan A nuclear accident occurred on Saturday at the 19-year old Mihama Nuclear Power Plant when a pipe apparently bro ke,and an emergency cooling system was activated to avoid disaster.Kansai Electric C ompany, which own s the plant, said n o radiationescaped and n o on e was injured. Japanese newspapers and outsideex pens said that the accident could have resulted in damages eq c aldamage

JohannesburgThe African National Cong ress has criticized a poliroundup over the weekend in which 11,000 people were arrested fcrimes ranging from m urder to cattle theft. The BN C questioned tAfrican Government's motives and demanded a breakdown by racethose held.WAR LOSSES: The Pentagon said during a briefer on Monday thatthe cumulative total of the combat losses of U.S. troops was 60:12killed in action, 12 wounded, 28 missing, and eight prisoners of war.The total number of U.S. aircraft lost is 18. More defections pushedthe number of Iraqi P.O.W.'s past 1,000 Monday. No meaningful dataon military casualties are available beyond an unconfirmed report inan Egyptian weekly that Iraq confidentially informed friendly Arabcountries that 15,000 soldiers had died thus far. As for civilians killed,a senior Iraqi official said that "thousa nds" had been killed orwounded in airraids.NATIONAL:Washington, D.C. - Defe nse Secretary Dick Cheney and Chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin L. Powell returned from aweekend of listening to the strategic advice of American field com -manders in Saudi Arabia. They agreed that the United States stillneeded to continue its bombing campaign before a ground attackmight be opened against Iraqi forces occupying KuwaitJim Bakker's 45-year jail sentence was thrown out by a Federalappeals court, which ordered that he be given a new sentence. Thecourt said that the judge had improperly mentioned h is own sense ofreligious propriety in sentencing Bakker.Since the war began in the Persian Gulf, sales of Americanflagshavesoared. No t in decades has there been such a demand for flags thatcanbe flown outside a house or from apartment w indow s, manufacturerssay.

LOCAL:Snow and ice combined to make treacherous con ditions o n Interstate90 Monday afternoon, causing a 22 vehicle pile-up that killed fourpeople and injured many others. T he chain-reaction crash took placecast of Exit 9, Harborcreck Township.

Senior! Dinner Dance approachesBy Dan LangcnMerciad Staff Reporter

Time is starting to run ou t forMercyhurst seniors as they enterthelast phase of their careers on thehill. The official beginning of thefinal countdown canbe consideredto be the Senior Dinner Dance,which will be held at the Erie PlazaHotel on Friday, March 8.X The co-chairpersons who areresponsible for planning the eve -ning are seniors Lisa Demas andDave Parsh. According to Demas,the purpose of theevent is to bringtogether the senior class for one ofthe final times, and for seniors andtheir guests to enjoy a night" offood,drink, funand entertainmentActual planning, began in* De-cember and isdone under the guid-ance of Patricia Liebel, director ofalumni relations. Funds were pro-vided through Mercyhurst StudentGovernment (MSG) according toDemas. ,A total of $4,500 wasallocated to the event by MSG , andDemas and Parsh are required tosubmit their inalallocations to MSG

Treasurer Dale Mancuso. Thedinner dance is free to all tradi-tional Mercyhurst seniors who havepaid their activities fee, but adultstudents whose activities fees havebeen waived must pay SIS to at-tend, according to Demas. Seniorswh o are bringing guests must alsopay $15 in order to cover the costof the meal, she said.The cost buffet dinner, whichconsists of tossed salad; vegetablesand dip; fresh fruit; marinatedcucumber and onionl salad;dclmonico potatoes; rigatoni andmeatballs; vegetable du jour; rollsand butter, baked chick en and as- Ijsorted desserts, is quoted at $12.95per person plus tax and gratuity. Itis based on an expected attendanceof 250 people, Demas said. Therewill also be two cash bars withmixed drinks, beer, wine and sodaavailable for purchase.Entertainment willbe providedthroughout the evening by DJ. John. 'Demas said guests will be able tohave group and individual photostaken by photographers from Son -ney's Photography also. Shuttles

will be provided to and from theErie Plaza Hotel, she said.Demas said that the dinner danceis planned based on a structuredsystem which has been in place forthe past three years. | She stressesthat she is very satisfied about whatseniors will be getting for theirmoney since she was able to get thesame price that has been chargedfor the past three years. "I think itis a very good deal consideringwhat is included in the price we'repaying for the evening,'* she said.The deadline for placing reser-vations for the dinner dance is Fri-day, Feb. 15. If the reply card hasbeen i lost or misplaced, reserva-tions may be made by contactingDemas at825-1362,orDave Parshat 825-1148. | | fDemas is excited about thedinner dance and the amount ofwork she put forth. **I really en-joyed putting the dinner dancetogether since so many people willenjoy it,'' she said.

Bookstore buys back used books for bucksBy Robin likely *Merciad Stall Reporter

For the irst imein Mercyhursthistory, our bookstore is going tobuy back used books. BookstoreManager Dan Cullen says, '*Be-cause of the teachers' cooperationwith getting their book orders inearly, it is possible to have buybacks this term." |J The bookstore will buy backany books that have been high-lighted, andhave little written notesin them. They will not buy backbooks that have been damaged(cracked bindings, water-logged,etc.). Study guides and workbooksare not normally bought back be-cause of torn out pages or the an-swers are already in them. Cullensays the bookstore will buy backyour books with consideration tohow large* the demand is for thebook (number of people registered)and how many books they alreadyhave on hand. If 30 people areregistered for a marketing class,the bookstore is obviously not goingto buy back SO book s from thestudents.Students are to bring their usedbooks to thebookstore and Cullenwill decide whether or not to pur-chase the book from you. Thebookstore has agreed to purchaseyour books for half of the originalprice. So if you bought thebook at$50, the bookstore will agree togive you $25 for it *Tlie bookstore will continue tosell new books, but the majority of

the books will be used. Cullen hasagreed to special order books forstudents if needed.This first time ev ent! beginsWednesday, Feb. 2 0 from 8:00 am .till 6:30 p.m. and continues onFriday, Feb. 22 from 8:00 a.m. till4:30 p.m.From page 1Discrimination;in theiworkplace

Booker explained that it is ille-gal to discriminate against anyonebecause of race, age, sex, religion,national origin or handicaps. Hesaid the government requires thatemployers provide equal employ-ment, opportunities. That doe sn'talways happen: Booker said dis-crimination in the workplace doeshappen in certain situations.Coordinator of theevent, RussRobison, said he and Howard Paul,assistant professor of business,wanted to see how unsuspectingstudents would react to discrimina-tion by an employer in theworkforce. So, they created a reallife scencrio to test student reac-tion.

M"It worked," said-Robison.The females in the room all got

upset At the conclusion of the lec-ture, Howard Paul thanked Bookerfor speaking on such |a touchysubject MB A had a hard time find-ing anyone to speak on the topic."I called up four personnel direc-tors, and they told me discrimina-tion w as a good topic, but no onewanted to bring up war stories anddiscuss it/ \ Robison added. Heconcluded, "Discrimination in theworkforce happens, but no onewants to talk about it*'

Exam week & Spring break hoursMercyhurst College Hammermill LibiFeb. 19 - 21Feb. 22Feb. 23 - 24Feb. 25 - Mar. 4Mar. 2Mar. 4

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Sisters of Mercy denounce Gulf warTo the Editor, . f

The Sisters of Mercy of Eriejoin with the Sisters of Mercy fromthe United States, the Caribbean,Latin America and the Pacific, whogathered in St Louis on Jan. 27,1991, to appeal to the good willand human decency of all govern-ments involved in diePersian Gulfto end the military action and towork together for a just and lastingpeace.

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THE MERCIAD FEBRUARY U, 1991Arts & EnltentainmentAndie McDowell' s latest fillproves Ithat pilots are not! theonly ones who drop tbombs

By Robi TaylorMerciad Entertainment Edi-torGreen Card rStarring - Gerald Depardieuand Andie M cDowellDirector - Peter WeirTouchstone PicturesRated PG-13 WWhen you watch the trailer of a movie you are supposed to beseeing what the movie is about, whether it is a comedy ora drama, andwho is starring in it Lately though, producers have taken all the goodparts of the movie to make the trailer with nothing left over when youget to see the film. Green Card is a perfect example.The story behind Green Card is simple. A Frenchman, GeorgeForay (Gerald D epardieu), comes to the United States on a six weekvisa, likes it and decides to stay. He learns that the quickest way to get

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There were a lot of things missing. I don'tknow if it was the story, the performance orthe direction tha t gave Green Card the flat-ness that was prominent throughout themovie. 4 li^Bronte Parrish (Andie M cDow ell), on the otlr - hand, is lookingfor an apartment with a greenhouse. Unfortunately, she is single andthe building's tenants' committee feel that a married couple would bethe best type of people for their apartment 1So , to make a long, tedious story short, you have two people whohave never met, marry each other for their own greedy reasons. Then,according to Bronte's friend, "You never have to sec him again."What he doesn' t tell Bronte is that the Immigration and NaturalizationService (INS) makes a routine visit to see the if the marriage is legal.After an INS initial visit to * 'their apartment*' when George can'tshow the agent to the bathroom they decide that separate, moreintense, interviews are called for.George and Bronte spend the next two days memorizing every-

thing they can about each other including, whether or not Georgesnores and what brand of face cream Bronte uses. They also spend thistime using up a lot of Polaroid film shooting vacation shot of skiingand the beach from the top o f their apartment bu ilding.All this occurs while they learn to go from tolerating each other tohating other and finally, in the last five minutes of the movie, to lovingeach other.There were a lot of things missing. I don* tknow if it was the story,the performance or the direction that gave Green Card the flatnessthat was prominent throughout the movie. 4.. The actors were adequate but neither Depardieu or McDowellgave their characters the life they needed to make the audience wantto get involved with them. The story was not a comedy, as shown onthe commercials, but it was also nota drama. The final product ookedlike the writer told the director to take two actors, place them in frontof the camera and film whatever happens without making the actorsact I !I make it policy not to reveal the end of a movie so that I wouldn'truin it for other people. I'm going to break that policy this time. GreenCard ends without an ending. You know what is happening to thecharacters, but it leaves you waiting to see what is going to happennext That one final thing, combined with everything else ruined themovie for me.'My Rating 40/100 \

Enter tainm ent trivi a: How many words were cuedition of the Stephen K ing novel Th e Stand?Answer 150.000 words were cut but replaced in the 1990

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iHamlet (Mel Gibson) stares at the ghost of iiis dead father, the murdered king of Denmark.vear-old olav becomes a movie I6 Harriet' makes it to the big screenBy Andy RothGuest CriticHamletStarring - Gleen Close and MelGibson -Director - Franco ZeffirelliWarner B rothers Pictures

Shakespeare on film has a check-ered history and, like the naughtylittle girl, when it's good, it's verygood, and when it's not, it's verybad. Happily, Franco Zeffirelli'scurrent production-of Hamlet isneither naughty nor bad. In factit's quite good . -. iThe late of the melancholy Dane,the man who couldn't make up hismind, scarcely needs rehashing. Forthose unfamiliar with the tale,however, it's the storyof Hamlet'sfather's ghost's request that Ham-let avenge his murder at the handsof Hamlet's uncle, and the uncle'smarriage to Hamlet s mother andascension to the throne of Den-mark. Hamlet's resolution of thisStephen Kingish request constitutesboth the\ plot Jand ^psychologicalinterest of the play/movie.

Since only the utterly unwashedare unfamiliar with the play's con-clusion, a contemporary audience'schief interest is in how a moderndirector edits the action, how hestages, or in the case of film, shootsit, and in the actors characteriza-tions.On all three counts, Zeffirelliscores a hi t HisHam let is strippeddown and lean. All the indirectaction and padding of the originalare gone. In Zeffirelli's minds, theplot is a streamlined rush from theghost's request to thefinalswordfigh t Although the purists mightbemoan this "classic comic bookstone, they will have to admit it'sentertaining. And that, I think, thebard would have approved.Perhaps the most fascinatingaspect of the film is the dank oldcastle in which it is set This ultra-realistic approach, similar* toBrannagh's Henry V and Zeffirelli'sown Romeo and Juliet, makes the

film simultaneously more real andacceptable to current audiences.Polonius' arras scene, Hamlet andGertrude's Oedipal encounter, theplay within the play-all benefit fromthis stylized literalness. The arch-ness of more abstract versions isgone. As a result, the audienceaccepts the action at amore viscerallevel and simply goes with i t In aword, it works.iMuch has been said about thequality of Mel G ibson's perform-anceasHamlet A lotof this smacksdangerously of damning with faintpraise j Actually, Gibson is quitegood-very good, in fact, which thosewho know him in more than LethalWeapon will find refreshing.Gibson has, for now, gone back tobeing an actor, the actor who wasso good in Mrs. Soffel and theYear of Living Dangerously.Glenn Close, as Gertrude, is not

but suspending thatdisbelief, she ismore than serviceable as the quietlyrandy queen. Ian Holm and AlanBates, as Polonius and the Kingrespectively, offer yet more evi-dence that English actors are thebest in the world. Helena Bonham-Carter, if a bit overwrought in themad scenes, is excellent as Opheilia.All inall, unless you area hope-lessly retrograde conservative andrequire your Shakespeare on a barestage acted by males only, Zeffirelli'sHamlet is an excellent piece ofwork.4See it in a theater if you can,the moldy old castle will not loomso largely on tape. Also, if youvalue good acting, watch for IanHolm's Polonius offering Laerteshis advice to a young man; it's aconsummate piece of work, bothHolm's performance and Zeffirelli'sstaging.

quite credible as Gibson's mother, My Rating 80/100

Workshop set for Summer '91Beginning on Sunday, June 16 shop the teacher *can attend forand extending through J une 22 , theMercy h urst College Dance Depart-ment will offer its. first summerdance intensive workshop.jThe workshop w ill offer a vari-ety of classes on ballet, pointe, pasde deux, modem, jazz and tap. Itwill be taught by Mary Price Bodayand Jay Kirk as well as a number ofguest teachers.|This intensive workshop willalso offer a special teaching course.As an added incentive, for every10 students who attend the work-

free. The workshop, as a bonus,will hold a number o f competitionsduring the week, awarding schol-arships and awards to the winners.There is also a possibility that theworkshop may be able to count ascredit for those participants attend-ing college, but details on this stillhave to be worked out, Mary PriceBoday,flMercyhurstdirector ofdance, said. iFor m ore information, contactMary Price Boday, director, at (814)825-0587 or Jay Kirk at 825-0258.M Your opinions matter jtoGet your Persian Gulf surveysght away

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FEBRUARY14,1991 T H E ME R C I A D PAGE 5FeaturlesLike to win $50 and get somepublicity too? The MercyhurstCollege yearbook staff is sponsor*ing a "Capture the MercyhurstSpirit** photography contest. TA Zwinner will receive $50 in prizemoney and the winning photographwill appear in the 1991 yearbookwith a by-line. The rules for thecontest are as follows?*** * * J

Students may submit pictures ei-ther at the yearbook office in MaL209 or to Mailbox #162. ICall for talent - Mercyhurst Col-lege is searching forfreshand unusaltalent to showcase during its up-coming Fourth of July celebration.The seventh annual extravaganzafeatures live musicjby area bands

C a m p u s C o m m e n ts by Tammy^PethtelStudents send messages for Valentine's Day

- Pictures should represent the imageof Mercyhurst College andbejngood taste. ( 1- Alcoholic beverages and/or ciga-rettes should not be visible in the

picture. Sorry!

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Minority students keep dream aliveBy Angela M . Cam pMcrciad Features Editor

Is Dr. Martin Luther King'sdream alive and well or is racismonce again rearing its ugly head?The Mercyhurst Minority Stu-dent Union (MSU) is an organiza-tion ! dedicated to educating stu-dents in order to avoid racial unrestand violence. The Minority Stu-

Claude Brutus, president of theMinority{Student Union. m UK *w>a *IWQ Owmnd PUU tt L~,

Limited availability ofdeluxe room s, iReserve your s pringbreak fun now. .

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Lady Lakers remain constantBy Liam BarronMerciad Sports Reporter

The Lady Lakers had an evenslate this past week and have uppedtheir record to 10-9. The Lakershave upset the negative pre-seasonpredictions of several conferencecoaches and are 3-4 in League play.The 'Hurst downed localrivalsFainState-Behrend by a score of 72-56last Wednesday in the CampusCenter. There were key contribu-tions from a pair of freshmen andtwo veterans. Freshman, Pam Crow-ell and Ann Du higg contributed 18and 14 p oints respectively, whilesenior Ruth Henderson added 13and Cheryl Tomczak had a dozenpoints.The two teams exchanged bas-kets for most of the opening 20minutes with the Lakers leading38-31 athalftime. Behrend exploded

to take a 44-42 lead early in thesecond half,butthe 'Hurst hit backwith nine straight points and neverlooked back as they went on torecord an important win.Coach Demyonavich was veryhappy with the team's offensivedisplay as he com mented,** Wehaven't been shooting well lately,but it was good tonight and this udue to the hard work wehave put inrecently." Demyonavich was verypleased with the way the team helpup under pressure. iHe said, * 'Wecould have folded in the secondhalf when they made that strongrun and tied it, but the girls didsome real good things after a time-out and settled d own very w ell."

On Feb. 9, the Lady Lakerstraveled to play the Lady Panthersof Pitt-Johnstown and lost 98-62.

one and downed the 'Hurst for thesecond time this season.The Lakers play was highlightedby C heryl Tomczak's 1,000th ca-reer poin t Pam Crowell led thescoring with 12 points and Tomczakadded ten, including two threepointers.%The 'Hurst were withoutstarting guards Michelle Beale andAnn Duhigg who both have pickedup injuries in the last couple ofweeks. They were down 50-23 inthe second half without reaiiy threat-ening the very strong Pitt-Johnstownteam. Assistant coach, Jim Webb,put the loss into perspective whenhe said, "Pitt-Johnstown has a chance

to win the national title. They arebig and fast, and very wellThe Lakers entertainedIT * I Til

Johnstown rankingUniversity of Buffalo this pastTuesday before challengingcrosstown riva l, Gannon Univer-sity, next Wednesday.

Behind the scenes of Mercyhurst vs GannonBy Jill SchreckengostMerciad Staff Reporter

They come in various ages, sizes,and}personalities. Each of themmay be there fora different reason,but without a doubt they are allbrought together j at a basketballgame.Before we take you behind thescenes at a 'Hurst - Gannongame,let's look at what the rivalry usedto be like. 5William Kennedy, director ofstudent services, has worked atMercyhurst for 21 years. He re-calls the rivalry: "Crowds filledthe Erie County Field H ouse, theequivalent of the Erie Civic Cen-ter.' ' Kennedy most fondly remem-bers the three games won by Mer-cyhurst as opposed to the othersthat were lost -Director of Enrollment, AndyRoth, who has worked at Mer-cyhurst for 17 years, adds, "Therivalry used to be extremely in-tense. For sports fans, it was thebiggest event of the winter.They were great games." Rothexplains that the games had selloutcrowds of upwards of 6,000. |But that was yesterday, and therivalry has been decidedly in favorof Gannon over the past few years.Thp overall series record stands

at four wins for Mercyhurst and 17victories for Gannoa The last* Hurstvictory against Gannon occurredduring the 1987-88 season with an80-74 victory J f *Despite die lopsided record infavor of Gannon, therivalrystillretains a certain charm. Considerthis season's December 12 gameatGannon and let's look behind thescenes. The game has not yet be-gun. Young children cling to par-ents, their eyes wide with amaze-mentA few high school students arepresent The males of this groupwatch the players warm up, as ifthey too are planning college bas-ketball careers. High school girlsseem to be checking out the collegeguys. One turns to herfriend, irstgiggling then whispering. Tliey both

turn to the right catching a glimpseof, "the guy with the blue jacketwith the wavy brown hair.''Of the college-aged spectators,some seem very passive, while otherscan't wait for the game to begin.Regardless, the students seem torealize the importance of support-ing their teams. %Older basktetball fans donningeither green and blue, or maroonand gold, converse amongst eachother. Memories of the rivalry areprobably most prominent in theirminds.Both teams warm up at theirrespectivqends of the court, con-

centrating on each shot with greatintensity.Hie game begins. Gannon's firstbasket is accompanied by, ironi-cally enough, a Mercyhurst stu-dent's toss o f toilet paper onto thecourt He is promptly removed fromthe gym by authorities. Meanwhile,Mercyhurst's football coach doesnot seem pleased by the actions ofone of his players.Various shouts aboundfrom hecrowd. "Oh...." moan the fans as ashot is missed. "C'mon, man!"yells a Mercyhurst enthusiastAnother follower exclaims "Yeah!"at the completion of a shot As ageneral rule, each outcry from hemob is accompanied by such ac-tions as jumping upor shaking fists.On two different occasionsduring the evening, a Gannon playerdunks. Both Gannon and Mer-cyhurst fans jump up and cheer; noone can conceal enthusiasm overplays such as these.Gannon's mascot, Gumby, runsonto the court This green characterclad in a Golden Knight shirt per-forms various somersaults and flips.He also slides with his stomach onthe court, winning many laughs.John Kleiner, whom Mercyhurstcould call its own mascot nowrunscourtfamous 4Mercyhurst' cheer. Real-izing thatbe lost the spotlight Gumbygrabs Kleiner and swings him arounda few times.! Kleiner tactfullyfre-turris to his seatSPORTSCARDS & MORECOMPLETE LINE OF CARDS *:SUPPLIES

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The game is now over, leavingGannon the victor. T he team's fansexcitedly leave the gym cheering.Mercyhurst followers exit quietly.Although the game has ended,the fans of Mercyhurst and Gan-non await the next meeting of thetwo teams, an outcome that onceagain favors Gannon. Unfortu-nately, this happens; all too fre-quently in what was once an in-tense rivalry.

. , . 'The iron armof the NCAABy Nick RobertsMerciad Sports Editor

As a rule when I have beenVVMwriting my editorials I haveto stay clear of subjects that di-rectly affect myself. This week

you might as well forget that, asthe topic of new NCAA legisla-tion affects all student-athletesof this college, and students-athletes across the country. {;I have beenvisiting this country for the past five years, and living here for the pasttwo years. This past week I learned,something which really amazedme: how easy the NCAA can manipulate and bully the seeminglyapathetic student-athletes of this country. ANew reforms by the NCAA are aimed at cutting costs, stoppingrecruiting violations and aimed at giving the student more studyingtime. 3;

I agree that these problems exist in collegiate athletics. But I thinkthat they exist only on a large scale in the big revenue sports. Due tothe NCAA letting problems of this nature get outof control, it has nowdecided to combat these problems right across the board, affecting allsports. Many o f the non-revenue sports are clearly not in need ofreform. . ? **v M - - -* * __Soccer is one of the main sports to be affected. Tw o years ago,Head Coach Trevor Warren recruited me to Mercyhurst College. Agreat opportunity I thou ght The host of the 1994 World Cup Finals,the land of athletic excellence, the land of the free, I thoughtI arrived from England after playing soccer for 15 years, duringwhich I played for ten months of every year, every Saturday andSunday except for eight weeks in the summer. Everything has nowchanged as the NCAA whacks its great hand of authority on me. Thealready short soccer season has been cut even shorter, we are notallowed to play scrimmages, and get this: I'm no longer allowed toplay club soccer during the academic year because the NCAA wantsme to study more. Oh they do? My Q.P.A. is 2.7 and they are tryingto tell me I haven't got enough time to study. Letme inform the NCAAthat like m ost students, I spend on average two and a half hours atclasses each day and sit on my backside for the rest of the day boredstiff. So now I cannot go and play for my club team in Cleveland fora couple of hours on Sun days because the NCAA wants to give memore study time! I consider this a grave infringement on my rights.t Notonly soccer is affected, what about the high profile sports liketrack and field, swimming, volleyball and gymnastics that have somany athletes involved in off-season playing which inevitably pro-duces the U.S.A Olympic competitors. How are we ever going tocompete with the strong unified Germans and Russians with legisla-tion like this?

Already the U.S. swimming and track andfield ederations havehired lawyers to plead their case. Swimming Queen Janet Evans is atypical example. A U.S.A. Today headline read last yean "NCAAplans could spoil O lympic aims." Evan's mother pointed out thatJanet had a 3.0OP . A. at Stanford, and would have to forego collegiateswimming if the NCAA would limit her training time.Yes, we are not all Janet Evans's of this world, but we surel/areentitled to the opportunity of trying to be * 'the best we can be." After

all, that's what this country was built on. With this article I have onlytouched the "tip of the iceberg. *' There are many other rules that willaffect you and your collegiate future, and the way things are going,under what restrictions are your children going to be playing colle-giate sports 20 years from now? Find out how this legislation affectsyou and try and do something about it You may ask why d on't thecoaches across the country protest? Simply because the people whomade these decisions are their bosses, the presidents and athleticdirectors who obviously didn't listen to any advice from thegrassrootslevel of sports.

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Troy Winch takes a shot at goal against St Bonaventure. Photo by John Furlong.Men's hockeyNationally ranked for first timeBy Mofly McCormickMerciad A ssistant Sp oils Editor

The nation is in for it now; theMercyhurst hockey team is rankedninth and they aren't about to stopat tha t According to the mostrecent NCAA Div. in ice hockeypoll the Lakers, with their 13-9-1record, are in the top ten.*Mercyhurst will play their riv al

Elmira, whom they defeated 6-2(1-20-91 at Elmira) and is ranked#1 in the nation, oa fe b. 2 2. Thisgame^appears, at this point, to bethe biggest game of the year for theLaker leers. Seth Green berg, a leftwing for the 'Hurst doesn't seemtoo worried. He said"We beatthem once already. It was a goodgame and if the team (Mercyhurst)works together, we can beat themagain."j ",Enough about the future, letme tell you how Mercyhurst got totheir ninth ranked position. The'Hurst blew out St Bonaventureon Feb.8,16-0, and two days laterdefeatedRJLT.6-2 a theErie CivicCenter. . \? i

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beat the Tigers (R.I.T.) 5-3 away,and the attitude about this gamewas pretty positive. Rick Gignac,also a left wing for the Lakers said,I knew we were! going to beatthem." he added, "I think that wecan beat anyone in the leag ue."The second the puck hit theCivic Center ice, Mercyhurst wasahead every second of the game.Scott Patterson, * senior winger,scored ahat trick to lead theLakersto their twelfth victory in leagueplay. The league record isnow 12-2! m f M pjfhi existence for three short years,the Mercyhurst hockey team workedhard and it showed with achievingnational ranked position for thefirst time ever. Nick Roberts, SportsEditor of the Merciad and fan ofthe Laker leers said,' 'I think thatthe ranking is long overdue, butvery well deserved and once again,k reinforces the push to bring hockeyback home onto our campus as weemerge as one of the power housesin Div. Ill hockey.The 1990-91 hockey seasonis almost over after 23 competitivegantes. Within thesef23 "gamesScott Burfoot has scored 34 goalsand has had 38 assists adding up to

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72 points. Hisgame winning goalsarc four, and that's with 38 min-utes in penalties. Troy Winch, nottoo far behind, has scored 19 goalstwo game winning, with 22 assists.Mick Keenhas tallied 17, two gamewinning and 16 assists. Both KurtJohnson and Rick Gignac scorednine goals, with 171 assists forJohnson and Gignac 11 and onegarnet winning goal. Pattersoncontributed with eleven goals andeight assists.At the other end; of the ice,Gary Bowles, playing a total of1236:44 minutes this season, hasstopped576of 655 attempts. RalphValenti in the net for 126:15 m in-utes this season has saved 41 of 47rival attempts.Mercyhurst scoring by periodthis season was 36 in the first pe-riod and 51 in the second and third.Shots by period were 234 in thefirst, 312 in the second and 248 inthe third.

Reckless and abandoned! Theseare the first words that come toHockey coach Rick Gotkin s mindwhen asked to describe junior PatDoran's performance in the rink.' Pat is a quiet guy and some-whatshy at times, but that is quite acontrast to the way he plays or! ice,All the great players are like that"The Canadian proves this descrip-tion of his game style quite accu-rately by his collection of injuriesreceived during his three years atMercyhurst

Doran, bettor known to thehockey world as "Do me y", startedout his Ifreshmanseason with abroken wrist w hich he received inhis third game. He managed toplay 17 of the 28 games with theuse of a p laying cast or by simplytaping his wrist and hand to hisstick. In those 17 games alone,Doran accumulated an unbeliev-able total of 170 penalty minutes.* Having played Junior B, andJunior A hockey, playing here wasa big change,* * Doran explained."Back home in Canada you cangetaway with a lot more. The refe-rees let youplay tough and fightingis acceptable." . 1 kDoran's aggressive style con-tinued to earn him injuries. In themiddle of his sophomore year hesub-locked his knee, which kept

himfromplaying for a few weeks.In the last game of the season, hebroke his shoulder socket and suf-fered froma "Charlie horse" thatcaused even more pain than theshoulder injury, but this didn't keepDoranfrom inishing the game.

Three times is not a charm forPat During this, his third year, heseparated the same shoulder andtore his rotator cuff. This occurredin a game two weeks ago and he isalready hoping to play this week-end.When asked if his injuries worryhim Doran replied, "If*you aregoing to worry about it, there is nosense of playing. If you worryyou'll be hesitant and if youtarehesitant you 'll be hurting the team."He also credits his attitude towardhockey to the support he has re-ceived from the Delta House andhis die-hard fan, Kelly. Nothing isgoing tokeep this tough guy off theice. Commenting on his injuriesDoran said, * Things are starting toslow down a bi t I just get over itand get back in the saddle again."

Laker; basketball loses disappointinglyMercyhurst's game against Pitt-Johnstown last W ednesday was anall too familiar ending to what hasbeen a most dismal season for themen's basketball team.Pitt-Johnstown's guard, EugeneTaylor, driving the length of thecourt slam-dunked the final points,and certainly the final nail in thecoffin of a disappointing season.Rallying from a eight pointhalfiime deficit,Pitt-Johnstown withonly seven players dressed,outscored a lethargic Laker team55-36 after intermission, en routeto a hard-earned 95-84 victory in

the Campus Center. The loss, theLakers 13th in a row, drops theirrecord to a dismal 4-18.Poor defense and a failure tobox out opponents were majorfactors in the defeat

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f Junior guard, Dave Constantino,playing hard at both ends of thecourt,led the Lakers with24 points.Themen return to action S atur-day night at the Campus Centerwhen they host the University ofBuffalo at 8 p.m. Gerry Battle scores for the 'Hurst in a recent game against GannonPhoto by John Furlong.